# OAI-SearchBot

> OpenAI · search

_The AI Crawler Registry · /crawlers/oai-searchbot · [JSON](/api/crawlers/oai-searchbot) · [all The AI Crawler Registry](/crawlers)_

- **name:** OAI-SearchBot
- **operator:** OpenAI
- **purpose:** search
- **ua_substring:** OAI-SearchBot
- **robots_token:** OAI-SearchBot
- **respects_robots:** yes
- **verify:** published IP ranges (openai.com publishes searchbot ranges)
- **notes:** Surfaces and links sites in ChatGPT search. Does not train models.
- **canonical_name:** OAI-SearchBot
- **user_agent_token:** OAI-SearchBot
- **ua_full:** Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/searchbot (source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots)
- **bot_type:** search-index
- **bot_type_extension:** —
- **opt_out_mechanism:** robots.txt disallow (User-agent: OAI-SearchBot)
- **published_ip_range_url:** https://openai.com/searchbot.json
- **asn:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **reverse_dns_suffix:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **supports_web_bot_auth:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **signature_agent_domain:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **jwks_url:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **verification_methods:** published-IP-range
- **crawl_traffic_share:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **targeted_content_type:** HTML, text
- **documentation_url:** https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
- **first_seen_date:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **last_verified_date:** 2026-06-15
- **block_vs_allow_recommendation:** allow — search crawler that surfaces and links your site in ChatGPT search; does not train. Blocking forfeits citation/referral.
- **citation_referral_value:** high (links sites in ChatGPT search results)
- **cloudflare_verified_category:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **status:** active
- **triples:** ["OAI-SearchBot","operated_by","OpenAI"], ["OAI-SearchBot","has_bot_type","search-index"], ["OAI-SearchBot","verified_via","published-IP-range"]
- **attribute_sources:** {"claims":["ua_full","user_agent_token","robots_token","published_ip_range_url","documentation_url"],"source":"https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots","last_verified":"2026-06-15"}